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This month, recent FX market shifts saw hedge funds unwinding exotic options in response to CNH volatility, leading to significant losses. Meanwhile, FX platforms have enhanced client loyalty through better execution and technology, and FX Hedgepool is expanding its credit-as-a-service model to new instruments, broadening counterparty opportunities. Let's get to it.
Hedge funds had spent the past two years stockpiling their exotic FX options like RKOs and digitals as a cheap bet that CNH volatility wouldn’t move and to fund a popular carry trade. Then, as markets went into turmoil at the beginning of August, many were forced to unwind these positions and buy vanilla put options. This caused pain for banks and buy-side alike, leaving many with mark-to-market losses.
A recent survey by Citi has found that FX platforms have improved their relevance with the bank’s clients. It highlighted enhancements in execution quality, technological stability and a proliferation of bespoke tools – all contributing to stickier relationships with clients.
FX Hedgepool started as platform for asset managers to match off their predictable, month-end FX swaps with each other. They are now taking its flagship credit-as-a-service model to all FX instruments, potentially opening up a range of new counterparty relationships for buy-side firms.
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